Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

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In class we watched an amazing TED talk called Artfully Visualizing our Humanity. It was about a man named Aaron Koblin who has  done many projects on the computer, some of which include; A map that shows all flights, a music video created by people who each drew pictures online to create a stop motion picture video and people who drew sheeps online which later got turned into stamps. What he is doing is extraordinary and I think it was well worth thr twenty minutes of my time to watch that video.

Here's the link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html

KONY 2012: Cover the night

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So if you watched the KONY 2012 video you would know that they told everyone to "cover the night" (vandalize the city) in KONY 2012 posters on april 20th at night. Overall I only saw five posters, four of which were on the same bench. I personally think that they did enough advertising BUT people are actuallystarting to find out the truth about how mysterious the organization really is. I used the word "mysterious" because where is the money going! 

KONY 2012

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On thursday in class we watched the KONY 2012 video, for those of you who have never seen it the link is bellow and it's about a man named Joseph Kony who with the help of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) abducts kids in the middle of the night and forces the boys to shoot their parents and become child soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves. I think it's horrible what's happening to those poor children! There have been stories going around that the organisation is steeling money and that they're not really doing what they say but, even if the organisation is not very good I think we still need to help these kids in Africa. What Kony is doing is horrible and it needs to be stopped! 

Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc